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Private sector

With a long track record of ground-breaking, innovative global partnerships, WFP sets a high standard for meaningful private sector relationships that combine technical assistance and knowledge transfer with financial contributions to not only solve global problems, but also to create measurable business outcomes. Together with each partner, we develop a strategic partnership that creates synergy between our interests and goals, exchanging valuable expertise to generate impact that shifts business one step closer to Zero Hunger.

WFP works with global leaders in almost every industry to create shared value that can be measured against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG2, Zero Hunger, provides us with a defined roadmap to track and evaluate the progress of our combined efforts.

To help us achieve SDG2 by 2030, WFP draws on its partners’ industry-leading knowledge, expertise and positioning to strengthen operations, amplify our message, fund lifesaving programmes and innovate solutions to some of the world’s most important challenges.

“At MasterCard we believe that good partnerships can build great opportunities, exciting initiatives and ground-breaking experiences. Our partnership with the World Food Programme delivers against one of the most compelling visions, a world beyond hunger.”

- Ajay Banga, CEO and President, MasterCard Worldwide

Why Partner with the World Food Programme?

70 percent of businesses plan to incorporate the SDGs in the next five years

94 percent of consumers are likely to switch to brands that demonstrate a social conscience

74 percent of employees say their job is more fulfilling when they are provided with opportunities to make a positive impact on social and environmental issues

Ways to partner with WFP

Provide funding support

Funding is the most flexible and fundamental resource required in order to reach vulnerable populations in remote and volatile areas, particularly during emergencies. Help support our efforts with necessary funding, directed either to our programmes (like School Meals or Food For Work), to emergency response or simply to areas of greatest need.

Advocate and call to action

Partner with WFP in our advocacy efforts by sponsoring research and ground-breaking reports, by joining one of our policy-change coalitions or simply by increasing awareness of our programmes with your employee and consumer base. WFP can work closely with you to find an organic way to incorporate donation opportunities into your communications, engaging your customers and consumers with dynamic content and impactful personal stories.

Share business proficiencies

Your expertise can help us improve our business, whether it’s streamlining our payment processes, improving the quality of our data analysis, educating our field staff or enhancing the nutritional value of our food basket – we value expertise in every field. By sharing personnel, technology or methodologies, you will help us move our business forward and make a greater impact in the lives of the people we serve.

Meet our partners

WFP works with top companies and foundations that are committed to finding lasting solutions to end hunger. Our Global Humanitarian Partners innovate with us to find unique, scalable solutions that have a real impact for families in need. They know that investing in zero hunger creates a safer, more prosperous world in which all 7 billion people can fully participate in the global economy and realize their potential.

Global Humanitarian Partners

Mastercard

Mastercard and WFP are delivering innovative solutions to meet the needs of the world’s hungry and vulnerable populations through an integrated giving platform. At the same time, Mastercard engages their customers and consumers around the world to raise awareness and funds for WFP. Learn more.

DSM

DSM is at the cutting edge of food fortification and is working with WFP to improve nutrition and fight the 'hidden hunger' of micronutrient deficiencies. Learn more.

LDS Charities

The humanitarian arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides critical resources to WFP during emergencies to help address the needs of hungry and vulnerable populations. LDS Charities also provides funds to WFP’s home-grown school meals programmes that support both children and smallholder farmers. Learn more.

KFC (and Yum! Brands)

The second largest restaurant company in the world partners with WFP through its award-winning Add Hope initiative, the largest international consumer outreach effort focused on hunger. Each year KFC engages customers and employees around the world to raise funds and awareness for WFP, helping provide over 460 million school meals since the partnership began with Yum! Brands in 2007. Learn more.

Zero Hunger Champions

The National Postcode Loterij in the Netherlands provides flexible funding that WFP can use where it is most needed and supports special projects, such as SAFE Stoves. Learn more.

MBC Hope, the philanthropic arm of MBC Group, has been supporting WFP since 2013 through the provision of school meals in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon and crucial food assistance to families in need in Palestine, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia. The Arab world’s largest media group, MBC is also committed to advocate WFP’s work and rally its millions of TV viewers and social media followers to our Zero Hunger vision. Learn more.

PepsiCo Foundation’s partnership with WFP help us achieve our goal of delivering sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and our planet. Learn more.

Stop Hunger, an endowment fund of Sodexo, leverages its expertise in vouchers and food service management to improve WFP’s local sourcing for school meals programmes; it also supports WFP financially in emergencies with fundraising campaigns. Learn more.

Unilever uses its expertise in nutrition, health and marketing, alongside channels to its enormous customer base, to raise money and awareness for WFP, particularly through its Knorr brand. Learn more.

Vodafone Egypt Foundation has been supporting WFP’s school meals programme in Egypt since 2011 through the daily distribution of fortified date bars and the conditional monthly distribution of family take-home food entitlement; it also currently supports school rehabilitation in Upper Egypt. Learn more.

Foundations

WFP’s partnerships with leading philanthropic organizations are critical in supporting our efforts to feed the hungry while also enhancing organizational capacity and furthering development of WFP’s strategic initiatives. Collaboration with foundations enables WFP to implement innovative programming that better serves communities in urgent need.

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WFP tackles urgent issues that impede food security throughout the developing world. Projects have focused on increasing the amount of purchases WFP makes from smallholder farmers and supporting WFP’s Food Security Analysis Service to help countries comprehensively assess and respond to food insecurity. Learn more.

The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) helps WFP prevent stunting though its “Right Foods at the Right Time—Improving Nutrition of Children under 2,” initiative. Together, CIFF and WFP are reaching 42,000 children under two years of age, along with 57,000 pregnant and nursing women in Malawi. Learn more.

The Rockefeller Foundation supports WFP in restructuring its natural disaster assistance programme, which is evolving from an ad-hoc system to a global risk management system that has a particular focus on helping people cope with climate related food crises in Africa. Learn more.